(CNN) -- North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il arrived in Russia on Saturday to meet with President Dmitry Medvedev, authorities said. Kim is scheduled to visit Siberia and the country's eastern region, according to a statement on Medvedev's website. "The meeting with Mr. Medvedev is the main event on his program," the statement said. The statement and North Korea's state media did not say what the two leaders will discuss. Earlier this month, North Korea  again called for the resumption of the so-called six-party talks without preconditions. North Korea pulled out of six-party talks in 2008. The six-party talks involved China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, North Korea and the United States. The goal was nuclear disarmament on the Korean peninsula.

The United States and
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South Korea, however, have insisted on some tangible demonstration that North Korea is serious about denuclearization.


Gerry Adams has admitted the IRA sentenced suspected paedophiles to death using kangaroo courts but has denied claims he covered up the alleged rape of a commander's niece. It came as it emerged British secret services blackmailed former IRA chief of staff Joe Cahill to spy for them after he was allegedly caught abusing a 14-year-old girl. His niece Mairia Cahill, 33, says she was raped by a different suspected IRA member when she was 16 and Mr Adams and others interrogated her and made to attend a face-to-face meeting with her abuser. Mr Adams denies her claims but admitted that the IRA had interfered with sex cases and had failed victims.

Last year the paedophile brother of
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Adams was jailed for 16 years for raping his daughter.


(CNN) -- Vice President Joe Biden delivered a rousing address to the NAACP in Houston on Thursday, bolstering support for President Barack Obama and drawing sharp contrasts with the Republican Party on civil rights issues. On the heels of recent voter identification disputes, Biden strayed from his typical campaign speech to zero in on voting rights, arguing that Republicans were making it more difficult for certain group to vote. By implementing laws requiring voters to present official identification at the voting booth, Biden said, the GOP sees "a different future, where voting is made harder, not easier." Democrats have said that such laws are politically motivated and intended to suppress minority voting, given that fewer people in minority groups carry government-issued IDs. Republicans, meanwhile, make the case that such laws prevent fraud and protect the integrity of the system.

Appealing to the group's founding, Biden on Thursday urged the crowd to "remember what (the
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NAACP) at its core was all about."